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welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm the director of the kansas city public library. it's a pleasure to have philip white here tonight. where philip white comes from, and has written this wonderful book. it's an extraordinary story. this is one of the six or seven greatest speeches, most important speeches, most consequential speeches in the history of the world i believe. i've written about it myself, and this speech in fulton, missouri, with the president of the united states and a former prime minister of england on the stage together set the tone for, created the first in essence battle in the history of the cold war, and it's beginning because of churchill's great rhetoric led to, in fact, the first victory but as i've written about the consequence of this included a moment when beadle smith became common was the executive officer to general eisenhower during world war ii was named ambassador of russia by truman come with to russia right after the speech can had no instructions. stalin called into his office at one in the morning and said his this policy the unit
welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm the director of the kansas city public library. it's a pleasure to have philip white here tonight. where philip white comes from, and has written this wonderful book. it's an extraordinary story. this is one of the six or seven greatest speeches, most important speeches, most consequential speeches in the history of the world i believe. i've written about it myself, and this speech in fulton, missouri, with the president of the united states and a...
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kansas city we could help getting some of the ideas we have. there is a racial disparity in her state and it comes down to economic opportunity and jobs and the best gift we can give somebody as a career. >> jim higgins. >> okay, well, one of the most inefficient things you can do with education dollars to send it to jefferson city and what the bureaucrats deal with it in and send it back. i mean, but the communities keep their own money and not have this, you know, big trail of money going back and forth. we need to allow parents to have more decisions in their schools and we need more school vouchers and charter schools. when the money comes back from the state, there's lots of strings attached and mandates. so the school districts -- every school district is a little different. they have different needs. so we need to allow more flexibility in the school, more innovation, competition, innovation. it works for cars and computers some will work for education. so we can't mandate and have everybody jump through the same hoops and every communit
kansas city we could help getting some of the ideas we have. there is a racial disparity in her state and it comes down to economic opportunity and jobs and the best gift we can give somebody as a career. >> jim higgins. >> okay, well, one of the most inefficient things you can do with education dollars to send it to jefferson city and what the bureaucrats deal with it in and send it back. i mean, but the communities keep their own money and not have this, you know, big trail of...
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we have read press reports about gsa spending $20,000 for cooking classes for employees and kansas city for teambuilding exercises. gsa also through a one-day awards celebration in november of 2010 at a cost of nearly $269,000. this is the event that the chairman mentioned at which gsa employees received drumsticks so that they could all drum together. the cost of this drumming exercise for each employee having their own ease -- gsa purchased drumsticks, almost $30,000. in light of these continuing revelations this committee has sought explanations from the ig, the acting administrator and all 11 regional administrators. their responses highlight the importance of the top to bottom review that i want to commend the new administrator for undertaking as well as the urgent need to implement organizational change and improve accountability. the regional administrators were not able to answer even basic questions about the budget and spending in their own region. they reported that the public buildings service and the federal acquisition service operate with separate budgets and with separat
we have read press reports about gsa spending $20,000 for cooking classes for employees and kansas city for teambuilding exercises. gsa also through a one-day awards celebration in november of 2010 at a cost of nearly $269,000. this is the event that the chairman mentioned at which gsa employees received drumsticks so that they could all drum together. the cost of this drumming exercise for each employee having their own ease -- gsa purchased drumsticks, almost $30,000. in light of these...
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kansas city there is a racial disparity in the state and it all comes down to economic opportunities and jobs and the best gift we can give somebody is a career. >> moderator: jim higgins? higgins: okay, the -- one of the most inefficient things you can do with your education dollars is send it to jefferson city and let the bureaucrats deal with it, and then send it back and let the community keep their own money and not have this trail of money going back and forth. we need to allow parents to have more decisions in their schools and we need more school vouchers and charter schools, and when the money comes back from the state there are lots of strings attached and mandates. so the school district, every school district is a little different. the of different needs we have more flexibility and innovation, competition, that's -- it works for cars and computers and will work for education. we can't have devotee jump through the same hopes and every community. we've got to sui allow the free market to work and innovation and competition to work, yes. >> moderator: jay nixon? nixon: ear
kansas city there is a racial disparity in the state and it all comes down to economic opportunities and jobs and the best gift we can give somebody is a career. >> moderator: jim higgins? higgins: okay, the -- one of the most inefficient things you can do with your education dollars is send it to jefferson city and let the bureaucrats deal with it, and then send it back and let the community keep their own money and not have this trail of money going back and forth. we need to allow...
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look at his kids from time to time, all appearances to the contrary you're being raised in kansas city. i think we tried to retain values which we had been raised, manner which we had been raised our kids would go back to south philly spend time with parents every year. we sent them to camp in minnesota we want wanted them to have some appreciation from culture which they came. it was, it was a head di time. steve roberts and coke which roberts were very close friends of ours and they were doing the same thing we were. they were raising their children in traditional fashion but we often talked that on weekends you would kind of put on costumes and be if not part-time hippies you could skirt around the edge of what was appeared to be a kind of liberation movement of some kind. wasn't true for everyone obviously. there was silent majority. there were a lot of people, like ron ziegler and, and haldeman, for example, and dwight chapin. they came out of usc. they were still the straight arrow kind of country club set. so there were lots of cultures in play in california in those days but on
look at his kids from time to time, all appearances to the contrary you're being raised in kansas city. i think we tried to retain values which we had been raised, manner which we had been raised our kids would go back to south philly spend time with parents every year. we sent them to camp in minnesota we want wanted them to have some appreciation from culture which they came. it was, it was a head di time. steve roberts and coke which roberts were very close friends of ours and they were...
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miss rose was born in topeka, kansas, moved to mason city, iowa, when she was four. both of her parents were public school teachers. she and her husband rob have two children, kyl and missy. miss rose has two sisters, one of whom was adopted after come to the family as a foster child. one of five foster children her parents welcomed into their home. after graduating from mason city high school, miss rose earned her bachelor's degree with honors from the university of iowa in just three years. then she earned her doctoral of jurisprudence from the university of iowa college of law in just two years, graduating in the top 5% of her class. she could easily have commanded a big salary with a top law fi firm. instead she opted for public service and long hours as a federal prosecutor working to uphold the rule of law, mak makg our neighborhoods safer and advancing the cause of justice. and i might add that she served as a federal prosecutor under district attorneys appointed both by democratic presidents and republican presidents. in 2009, the senate unanimously confirmed
miss rose was born in topeka, kansas, moved to mason city, iowa, when she was four. both of her parents were public school teachers. she and her husband rob have two children, kyl and missy. miss rose has two sisters, one of whom was adopted after come to the family as a foster child. one of five foster children her parents welcomed into their home. after graduating from mason city high school, miss rose earned her bachelor's degree with honors from the university of iowa in just three years....